Starving Heart

 Broken ego

a rapier facing inward

scrapes her eyes

and she walks away

from all she felt she couldn't do

completely blind to all she could

Vision impaired

she never looked back

pain hidden away

behind scars

A quarter of a hundred years later

and the lesions are being washed away

by a voice she could not ignore

cleaning sight

making clear the painful foolishness

she blinded herself with

and slowly

what she had been doing

what she had been capable of

becoming visible

Allowing her to finally tend

finally clean

begin to heal

the real wound

that had festered

and poisoned her

for far too long

2-July-2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 2 of 31 CampNaNoWriMoJuly2024

"Broken" by Ramin Karimloo

"Til I Hear You Sing" from "Love Never Dies" ~ Ramin Karimloo

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